A: 65kg. Tried 70 but couldn’t get out of the bottom of the hang clean. B: double at 75kg. My 1rm is 80 – so I tried 81kg. No luck. pausing for too long at the bottome of the squat. C: I beat my time from earlier in the year by 30 seconds and got 7.59 today. Must have been the secret ingredient in Ben’s coaching!??

Worked with Ben Manning this morning. That was good fun – sandwiched between him and Kenny, so plenty of banter and (surprisingly little complaining from either of them). A. Did the complex at 80kg, then did a power clean at 85 that accidentally became a full clean. Then another power clean. And that seemed enough. B. Minor PB by 1kg – 106kg. Felt like I can get a bit more soon. C. 9:43 (improvement from 10:17). I credit that to taking the security blanket with me and folding it over the edge of the plate so it didn’t keep clunking me in the back of the skull. Never had to change my grip once!